Flood waters cover corn crop along the Missouri River

June 1, 2007

Dexter, Kansas

Photographer states :: Grouse Creek main channel on east side of K-15 bridge out of it's banks.

...Part of the water on his farm came from a levee break near Big Lake and the rest of the flooding occurred when he had to shut the flood gates on internal drainage and the creeks started to back up.
Bailey estimates that in Holt County, Mo., 52,500 acres of corn were underwater and 31,250 acres that were not planted yet were underwater. Ninety-eight percent of the planted acres are a total loss.
Wayne Crook, University of Missouri Extension agronomy specialist in Chariton County, estimated they had 50,000 acres underwater along the Missouri River and 15,000 flooded along the Chariton River.
"The wheat is a total loss, but the corn may be replanted because of the fertilizer and chemical they have already applied," Crook said. "We had not really planted any soybeans yet."
Because of the levee breaks in western portions of the Missouri River, Crook did not expect to see much flooding east of Chariton County....

Tornado causes $2.7 million in infrastructure damage

June 2, 2007

Muscatine, Iowa

Photographer states :: Remains of the farm: curved roof of porch lands near overturned camper which was in the furthest away barn. The 8 triangular wedges, intact pieces of the turret, are scattered northeast of the house.

The Incompetent Republicans - No double jeopardy either. They are free to go.

"Illegal Enemy Combatant"

...Military lawyers here said the same flaw would affect every other potential war crimes case here. The ruling, the latest in a history of legal setbacks for the government’s effort to bring war-crimes charges against detainees, appeared to raise far-reaching questions, because it involved central principles of detention procedures....


Military tribunals are about war, not civil liberties. These 'detainees' are POWs in a "Global War on Terror." Detainee is just a fancy word for it. Osama bin Laden would be a prisoner of war just like any of the others. Unlike what occurred with Ramzi Yousef and the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing Trials, Bush 'created' a new system that is formualted to victimize people. We all know it. The USA has never had such incompetent leadership. When is someone going to impeach Bush and Cheney. This is an outrage. There was nothing "W"rong with trying those responsible before, now there isn't even a competent method of trying people Bush claims is so dangerous they have to be sequestered on Gitmo. What next?


Judges Uphold Convictions In '93 Bombing (click here)
By BENJAMIN WEISER
Published: April 5, 2003
A federal appeals panel in Manhattan yesterday upheld the convictions of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and a 1994 plot to blow up a dozen American airliners as they flew across the Pacific.
The 186-page ruling, issued by a unanimous three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, also rejected Mr. Yousef's claim that his sentence of life plus 240 years violated the ban on cruel and unusual punishments.
The Eighth Amendment forbids only extreme sentences that are ''grossly disproportionate'' to the crime, the court said, adding, ''Yousef's sentence, even if well beyond his life expectancy, is not 'grossly disproportionate' to his crimes.''
The 1993 trade center attack, led by Mr. Yousef, killed six people and injured more than 1,000. The airline conspiracy, which was hatched in Manila, was not carried out, but a bomb placed on a Philippine Airlines jetliner in a test run resulted in the death of a Japanese passenger. ''I am a terrorist, and I am proud of it,'' Mr. Yousef proclaimed when he was sentenced in 1998.
The Manila plot has received increased attention since the capture of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, an aide to Osama bin Laden who is suspected of helping to mastermind the Sept. 11 attacks....